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97%
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The Thin Man (1934)
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"The Thin Man (1934) is the first of a popular series of films casting a sophisticated and urbane husband and wife detective team"
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Tim Dirks
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91%
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The Awful Truth (1937)
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"The Awful Truth (1937) is one of the classic, definitive screwball comedies of the thirties. Producer/director Leo McCarey's stylish light comedy is a witty battlefield"
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Tim Dirks
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100%
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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"Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) is a classic example of a Warner Bros. gangster/crime melodrama of the 1930s"
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Tim Dirks
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91%
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Camille (1936)
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"Camille (1936) is one of the most romantically-atmospheric films ever made and a classic, well-known melodramatic love/tragedy"
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Tim Dirks
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89%
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Gaslight (1944)
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"Gaslight (1944) (aka The Murder in Thornton Square) is a superb, definitive psychological suspense thriller from director George Cukor."
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Tim Dirks
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79%
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Hud (1963)
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"[A] well-acted, authentic-feeling story."
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Tim Dirks
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100%
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North by Northwest (1959)
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"North by Northwest (1959) is an Alfred Hitchcock classic, suspenseful comic thriller - one of the most entertaining movies ever made and one of his most famous"
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Tim Dirks
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85%
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The Seven Year Itch (1955)
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"The Seven Year Itch (1955) is a delightful, sophisticated and witty farce, using to the fullest extent the mordant humor of director Billy Wilder"
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Tim Dirks
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100%
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A Day at the Races (1937)
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"A Day at the Races (1937) is a classic Marx Brothers comedy, often argued as one of their three or four best works."
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Tim Dirks
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100%
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Modern Times (1936)
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"In Modern Times (1936), the still-silent Tramp, with his familiar small Derby hat, large boots, baggy pants, tight jacket and cane makes his last appearance."
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Tim Dirks
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96%
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A Star Is Born (1954)
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"A Star is Born is the superb 1954 musical, acclaimed by many as the greatest Hollywood musical ever made. Judy Garland's intense performance as the main"
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Tim Dirks
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100%
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Swing Time (1936)
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"Swing Time (1936) is often named as the best or most popular musical/romance of dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (they only made ten films"
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Tim Dirks
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96%
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All the King's Men (1949)
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"All the King's Men (1949) is the fictionalized account of the rise and fall of a backwoods rebel - a story inspired by the rule"
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Tim Dirks
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73%
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
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"A Place in the Sun (1951), a melodramatic film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's lengthy, best-selling 1925 novel, An American Tragedy, was also"
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Tim Dirks
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86%
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The Black Cat (1992)
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"The Black Cat (1934) is a classic, enigmatically disturbing horror film co-starring the two greatest masters of the horror genre"
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Tim Dirks
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100%
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
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"The Roaring Twenties (1939) is action director Raoul Walsh's first gangster film. This newsreel-like, semi-documentary film,"
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Tim Dirks
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96%
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Animal Crackers (1930)
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"Animal Crackers (1930), the second of many classic Marx Brothers films (their first film was The Cocoanuts (1929), also for Paramount Studios)"
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Tim Dirks
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98%
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The Conversation (1974)
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"The Conversation (1974) is the slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic surveillance and threat of new technologies examined through"
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Tim Dirks
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94%
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is producer/director Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama, and considered by many to be his greatest achievement in film (and reminiscent of"
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Tim Dirks
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91%
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Little Women (1933)
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"Little Women (1933) is one of the best-made film renditions of the Louisa May Alcott Civil War-era tale of a family of four sisters in New England, from director George Cukor."
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Tim Dirks
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98%
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The 39 Steps (1935)
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"The 39 Steps (1935) is one of the earlier Alfred Hitchcock British spy-chase suspense-thrillers from a vintage period"
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Tim Dirks
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81%
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
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"Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) is the classic, sentimental tale of much-loved British schoolteacher guiding many generations of schoolboys through almost 60 years"
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Tim Dirks
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100%
|
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
|
"The Maltese Falcon (1941) is one of the most popular classic detective mysteries ever made, and one of the first in the dark film noir genre."
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Tim Dirks
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100%
|
The Godfather (1972)
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"The three-part gangster saga from Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola is a superb trilogy of films"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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100%
|
The African Queen (1951)
|
"The African Queen (1951) is the uncomplicated tale of two companions with mismatched personalities who develop an implausible love affair"
|
Tim Dirks
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93%
|
The Apartment (1960)
|
"The Apartment (1960) is producer/director Billy Wilder's bittersweet, heartrending tragi-comedy/drama of a compliant insurance clerk"
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Tim Dirks
|
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100%
|
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
|
"Sullivan's Travels (1941) is generally considered one of writer/director Preston Sturges' greatest dramatic comedies - and a satirical statement of his own director's creed."
|
Tim Dirks
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96%
|
Double Indemnity (1944)
|
"Double Indemnity (1944) is director Billy Wilder's classic film noir masterpiece - a cynical, witty, and sleazy thriller."
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
100%
|
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
|
"Cool Hand Luke (1967) is the moving character study of a non-conformist, anti-hero loner who bullheadedly resists authority and the Establishment."
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Tim Dirks
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96%
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Fantasia (1940)
|
"Fantasia (1941), a Disney animated feature-length "concert" film milestone, is an experimental film integrating eight magnificent classical musical"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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100%
|
The Public Enemy (1931)
|
"The Public Enemy (1931) is one of the earliest and best of the gangster films - the second one from Warner Bros. in the thirties. Director William Wellman's"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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The General Died at Dawn (1936)
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Tim Dirks
|
|
100%
|
Red Dust (1932)
|
"Red Dust (1932) is the earliest of the Clark Gable/Jean Harlow films. Vantine (Jean Harlow), an earthy, sexy, wise-cracking, platinum blonde prostitute,"
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
99%
|
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
|
"The Wizard of Oz (1939) is everybody's cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical from MGM during its golden years. For many seasons, it was featured"
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Tim Dirks
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91%
|
Inherit the Wind (1960)
|
"Inherit the Wind (1960) portrays the famous and dramatic courtroom "Monkey Trial" battle (in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee)"
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Tim Dirks
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97%
|
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
|
"Kiss Me Deadly (1955) is the definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fiction film noir of all time. The film's 50's Los Angeles hero"
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
100%
|
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
|
"Tarzan and His Mate (1934) is considered the greatest of the Weissmuller-Tarzan films, even better than its predecessor - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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100%
|
Greed (1924)
|
"Greed (1924) is one of the greatest silent films ever made, although the film was a box-office failure at the time. The 'lost' film masterpiece"
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Tim Dirks
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57%
|
Love Story (1970)
|
"Love Story (1970) is a sentimental, romantic tearjerker film from director Arthur Hiller about a tragic couple. The melodramatic soap-opera,"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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98%
|
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
|
"The Night of the Hunter (1955) is a truly compelling and terrifying classic masterpiece thriller, and the only film ever directed by actor Charles Laughton"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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100%
|
On the Waterfront (1954)
|
"Authentic-looking, powerful film is concerned with the problems of trade unionism, corruption and racketeering."
|
Tim Dirks
|
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92%
|
The General (1927)
|
"An imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, the silent Civil War adventure epic classic, The General (1927)"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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100%
|
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
|
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
100%
|
Rear Window (1954)
|
"An intriguing, brilliant Hitchcockian macabre visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism."
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
92%
|
The Deer Hunter (1978)
|
"The Deer Hunter (1978) is storywriter/producer/director Michael Cimino's epic, only his second film - a powerful, disturbing"
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
100%
|
The Terminator (1984)
|
"The Terminator (1984), the first of two science-fiction action-thriller films, is considered by most film reviewers to be a better-crafted film.."
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
99%
|
Apocalypse Now (1979)
|
"Apocalypse Now (1979) is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola's visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences"
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
98%
|
Raging Bull (1980)
|
"Raging Bull (1980) is an unrelenting, searing biopic and dramatic tragedy - based on the real life story of an unloveable, stubborn middle-weight boxing champion"
|
Tim Dirks
|
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87%
|
East of Eden (1955)
|
"East of Eden (1955) is an updated telling of the Biblical story of rival brothers, Cain and Abel and a paradise lost."
|
Tim Dirks
|
|
100%
|
Dinner at Eight (1933)
|
"A masterfully-directed comedy, Dinner at Eight (1933), filled with a tremendous cast of stars all invited"
|
Tim Dirks
|
76%
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